Towards the API Economy... The Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2)

It´s known that Industry disruption has always been driven by technology and standarization.

Applicationprogramminginterfaces ( APIs) are the key "building blocks" of the new Digital Business Platform. APIs are pieces of software code that provide a "set of technical and functional specifications" to nteract with information and business systems.

APIs organizational’scoreassetscanbereused,shared, and monetized through APIs that can extend the reach of existing
servicesorprovidenewrevenuestreams.

APIscanbemanaged like a product—one
built on top of a potentially complex technical footprintthatincludeslegacyandthird-partysystemsanddata. Digital Disruption is fueled by API´s

Companies should commit to
building a marketplace to trade and settle discrete, understandable, and
valuable APIs and to establish an ecosystem of partners, integrators and consumers to enable new business and monetize data and algorithms.

A Digital Business is supported by a Technology Platform in the following five areas:

Una alternativa financiera para empresas y particulares... Initial Coin Offerings can be considered as an alternative form of crowdfunding that has emerged outside of the traditional financial system. This model has helped a lot of successful projects and companies get the funding required to start their business. In 2013, over US$5.1 billion were raised via crowdfunding worldwide, which increased to US$16 billion in 2014 and was estimated at over US$34 billion in 2015. https://topicolist.com/

The momentum behind crypto remains powerful. Bitcoin is still worth seven times what it was just a year ago. In the first quarter of this year, according to CoinDesk, a news service, $6.3bn was raised through initial coin offerings (ICOs), a form of funding in which firms issue digital tokens, more than in all of 2017. Up till July of 2017, the total dollar amount raised in Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) was a staggering USD$1,252,676,352. That’s over a billion dollars raised within a span of 7 mon…

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Chairman of maat International (www.maat-g.com), the holding company for one of
the most innovative and fast growing privately owned Corporate &
Technology& Infrastructure Professional Services (est. 1999). His
leadership and business experience accumulated both in Public and Private
Sector marked a change in the Corporate Strategy of Professional Services in
order to diversify maat International offering into the Corporate Services
(Multilateral Agencies, Investment Funds, Private Equities, Development
Funds,…); Property Development, Housing,Energy, Transport Infrastructures, Agriculture and Trading industry in
Africa and LATAM and Research & Development in it the Cloud Computing
industry. He has been a venture capitalist in various companies and he is a
foundi…